Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) revealed important genetic components that affect bone density in ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Kallmann syndrome is a rare genetic sexual disorder that is characterised by a late or absent puberty and an impaired sense of smell. It is a form of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - a condition where ...

American geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. Born on April 6, 1928 in Chicago, IL, USA, he died aged 97 years in East Northport on Long Island, NY, ...

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

"If it is a melanoma and it's undiagnosed, it's going to continue to progress," said Dr. Abby Waldman, the medical director of the Mohs and Dermatologic Surgery Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The clever, adaptable urban "trash panda" may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other ...

Studies have shown that cancer is more common in those who have crossed 45 age, thus, if you belong in the aforementioned age ...

The results of the dictator’s DNA revealed high levels of bipolarity, depression, autism, ADHD, and schizophrenia.

Scientists have recovered ancient molecules of RNA from a juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40,000 years ago in what is ...

Rather than being genetic or acquired, Johnston's CJD developed when normal prions in her brain spontaneously began ...